Douluo: Eternal Life from the Legend of Dragon King

Chapter 29 Learning Blacksmithing

The Blacksmith Association in Donghai City is a gray building, about thirty stories high, with a huge hammer pattern on it.

After Chen Xi walked into the glass door on the first floor, he saw a ten-meter-high glass wall in front of him. On the wall was a relief of a golden hammer that was at least eight meters high.

The hall of the Blacksmiths Association is very empty, with only two girls in gray professional attire at the front desk.

"Little boy, who are you looking for?"

Looking at Chen Xi who was walking in front of her, a sweet-looking girl stood up and asked enthusiastically.

"I'm not here to look for anyone. I'm here to learn forging."

After hearing the girl's question, Chen Xi shook his head and said.

"Learn forging?"

Hearing this, the girl subconsciously looked at Chen Xi.

He looks only six or seven years old. Is he learning forging at such a young age?

Although blacksmiths are very popular on the continent because everything requires metal, they see many people who want to learn blacksmithing every day.

However, it is rare to learn forging at such a young age. Because of their young age and incomplete physical development, learning forging too early may hurt their body.

"Are you sure you want to learn forging? You are too young and forging may hurt your body, so I suggest you learn it when you are older."

The girl suggested to Chen Xi.

"My physical fitness should be good enough to learn blacksmithing."

Chen Xi clenched his fists, feeling the energy in his body and responded.

"Is that so?"

The girl was stunned when she heard Chen Xi say this. So confident?

Is it a natural supernatural power?

The girl had also seen some people with extraordinary physical fitness. If he was really born with supernatural powers, then it would not be surprising.

"You came to the Blacksmith Association to learn forging, but you didn't find a master?"

"Yes."

Chen Xi nodded. He didn't know how to find a blacksmith in Donghai City, so he simply came to the Blacksmith Association, a gathering place for blacksmiths, to learn.

"Okay, then there are two simple ways to learn forging in our Blacksmith Association. The first is to post a commission and let a blacksmith who has time come to teach you."

After hearing what Chen Xi said, the girl also began to provide him with methods to learn forging.

"However, the abilities of the blacksmiths who accept your commission may vary, and if you want to commission a high-level blacksmith, you will need a lot of money."

"What about the other method?"

Chen Xi thought about it for a moment and continued to ask.

"The other option is to have someone from our Blacksmith Association teach you. There are blacksmiths giving lectures every week and you can come and listen."

"However, the blacksmith doesn't just give you lessons, so if there's something you don't know, the blacksmith may not have the time to take care of you."

The girl paused here, then continued.

"Of course, we also have videos of blacksmiths giving lectures, but you need to go to a dedicated blacksmithing room to view these videos."

"How many federal coins are needed to study in the forging room?" Chen Xi asked.

"30,000 federal coins a day, 150,000 in seven days, 500,000 in thirty days..."

The girl quoted Chen Xi the price for using the forge.

"Well... I'll use it for seven days first."

Chen Xi thought for a while and said that he would try to learn forging at the Blacksmith Association first. If that didn't work, he would use the remaining federal coins to hire a master to teach him. "Okay, fill in your information here and pay the federal coins."

The girl took out a form with a smile on her face.

Chen Xi took a look and saw that it only required filling in basic information such as name. Chen Xi signed it very happily and paid 150,000 federal coins.

"plz follow me."

After all the formalities were completed, the girl took Chen Xi to a forging room.

"The forging videos here are trade secrets. You cannot use other methods to record them and take them out of the forging room. Otherwise, the consequences will be serious."

"If the metal you scrapped during forging is valuable, you will need to pay us extra for the metal. Conversely, if the metal you forged is successful, you can sell it to us."

Before entering the forging room, the girl reminded Chen Xi of some things he needed to pay attention to, and left only after Chen Xi made a promise.

The first thing Chen Xi felt when he entered the forging room was quietness, extreme quietness.

No sound from outside could come in, and no sound from inside the forging room could go out.

This is also a necessary function in a forging room. After all, forging requires concentration to feel the metal. If it is affected by external forces, the loss will be great.

What's more, it's such a big association, and there are countless people coming here to forge every day. If the forging room is not soundproof, wouldn't it annoy others?

In addition to the forging table and heated furnace, the forging room also has many hammers of different weights and metals used for practicing forging.

"It's a little light..."

Chen Xi picked up a ten-kilogram forging hammer, weighed it briefly, then shook his head and said.

He only knew that his strength was greater than that of ordinary people, but he had never tested the specific value. It seemed that he would have to do a special test later.

“This weight is about right.”

Chen Xi picked up a hammer weighing more than 50 kilograms and swung it, then nodded and said.

After putting the hammer aside, Chen Xi turned on the soul guide screen next to him and began to watch the most basic teaching.

According to the instructions in the video, he first picked out a piece of the most common fine iron from the metal used for practice and put it aside to heat it. During the process, Chen Xi adjusted the height of the forging table.

He was too short, and the height of the forging table would affect him.

When everything was ready, Chen Xi used tools to pick up the almost heated metal, put it on the forging table, and waved the forging hammer in his hand to hit it bit by bit.

Any profession is very simple at the beginning. At present, Chen Xi only needs to ensure that he has enough strength to swing the forging hammer and hammer the fine iron.

“Dang, dang, dang, dang…”

The sound of the forging hammer hitting the fine iron echoed continuously in the forging room.

As Chen Xi hammered again and again, a piece of fine iron the size of a brick began to shrink continuously, and the impurities inside began to be slowly removed.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Xi was sweating all over and his arms began to ache.

Forging metal is really tiring, Chen Xi sighed in his heart. He couldn't stand swinging the 50-kilogram hammer all the time.

However, Chen Xi was tired and the metal was not easy to handle. The original brick-sized piece of refined iron had shrunk several times and became almost the same size as Chen Xi's palm.

Seeing that the fine iron was becoming increasingly difficult to shrink, Chen Xi gritted his teeth and continued to swing the forging hammer with greater force. Great force could make miracles happen. He wanted to see where his limit was.

"when!"

As Chen Xi's last powerful blow of the forging hammer fell, the system's voice rang out again.

[Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing the "Hardcore" achievement. 】

【Achievement rewards are waiting to be claimed. 】

(End of this chapter)